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Noun: Innuit  in-yoo-it
  1. A member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada, Greenland, Alaska or eastern Siberia); the Algonquians called them Eskimo ('eaters of raw flesh') but they call themselves the Inuit ('the people')
    "Nunavut is the homeland of the Innuit people";
    - Eskimo, Esquimau, Inuit

Derived forms: Innuits

Type of: American Indian, Amerindian, Native American, Red Indian [archaic]